Contributors

182 the minnesota review Contributors LENORE BALLIRO recently returned from the People's Republic of China where she taught English at Zhejiang University. REGINA BARRECA has written and produced a series of short films on domestic violence titled, "Two-Way Street." She is currently completing a critical study on "Hate and Humor in Women's Writing." ROBERT BENSON hails from Joliet, IlUnois (not, we think, from the penitentiary). His fourth chapbook of poetry, Scriptures of Venus, wUl appear in 1987 from Swamp Press. ROGER BRESNAHAN teaches writing and American culture at Michigan State. DIANA COLLIER'S work has been published principally in Canada. She and her husband have launched a consulting firm in international law in Atlanta, concentrating on cases dealing with international human rights. M. TRUMAN COOPER recently completed a book of poems, Against Odds. Her work has appeared previously in Plainsong, The Literary Review, and Kansas Quarterly, among others. An Associate Profesor of English at Ohio State, WALTER DAVIS recently completed a book on subjectivity titled, "Inwardness and Existence." KATHLEEN GEMINDER is an assistant professor at the University of Manitoba where she trains teachers and social workers for the inner city. She has an article on Milton's Comus forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press's coUection, Milton and the Idea of Women. JONATHAN GILLMAN Uves and writes in Colchester, Connecticut. Currently a teacher of creative writing at Mercer University, JALAINE HALSALL recently won first place for her fiction in Chattahoochee Review. BETH HOUSTON will begin graduate school this fall, after stints with the Santa Monica police department and the Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women. MARCIA JAGODZINSKE says that in addition to writing, raising children, throwing pots, and working as a rehabilitation counselor for bUnd and visually handicapped individuals, she is the editor of a networking newsletter for women. We tend to believe her. Since last appearing in these pages, DAVID JAMES has been named chairman of the English department at Occidental College. His book on Black American film will be published by Princeton University Press. RICHARD JOHNSON teaches political science at Oregon State. Born in England, MARGARET JONES lived in Wales and Alexandria, Egypt before arriving at her current residence at Purdue University, where she is working on a dissertation on California novelists of the 1930s. She just completed a novel titled, "A Longer String." GEORGE KALAMARAS' poems have appeared in Bitterroot, Greenfield Review, and others. He will publish a chapbook from Leaping Mountain Press this year. IVO KAMPS is a doctoral candidate in English at Princeton, where he is concentrating on Renaissance studies. He's also a Chicago Bears fan—a more difficult fate to bear this year than last. LINC KESLER is currently resurfacing in the imperial contributors 183 culture as an assistant professor of English at Oregon State. ERNEST LARSEN's novel, Not a Through Street, was published last year by Pluto Press in London. JON LEWIS teaches film in the English department at Oregon State. His video productions have been screened at festivals and galleries across the country. A frequent contributor to mr, LYN LIFSHIN teaches creative expression through words and movement to children. Her collection of poems, Kiss the Skin Off, won the Jack Kerouac award in 1984. Presently the vice-president of the Poetry Society of America, GERALDINE LITTLE'S poems have appeared in over 150 journals, including Nimrod, Commonweal, and Shenandoah. DAVID W. NOBLE is Professor of American Studies at the University of Minnesota. His most recent book is The End ofAmerican History. KATE MELE is a lecturer at Illinois State University (which is located in a town with the improbable name of Normal) and is associate editor of Literature and Psychology. JOHN O'KANE teaches comparative literature at the University of Southern California. ANTONY OLDKNOW is a British poet who has been resident in the U.S. since 1964. He teaches English at the University of Kansas. Working diligently on a study of the French Revolution and the development of realist fiction, SANDY PETREY somehow finds time to teach French and comparative literature and serve as Stony Brook's faculty senate president. What a guy! MAXINE S. PETRY-ANDERSON lives in Columbus, Ohio where she writes...